Sodium Hypochlorite Disinfection - Flow Paced

The Balama Graphite project will be the leading global producer of high purity graphite. The front end engineering and design (FEED) was awarded to a Perth based engineering firm, who subsequently carried out the engineering and procurement for the project. As a reputable and renowned market leader in design and manufacture of packaged water and sewage treatment plants for the resources sector, MAK Water was awarded the contract to supply the project’s water and sewage treatment plants.

A corrective service centre located near Geraldton in WA approached MAK Water to review the operations of their Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). The current treatment process was not achieving the required standards set by the Department of Environment for its treated effluent, and therefore MAK Water’s objective was to provide a long-term solution that would not only improve water quality but reduce ongoing operation costs and promote operator safety. MAK Water was able to diagnose two main reasons the current system was failing, firstly inadequate contact time for the disinfectant to affectively work and the monitoring ability of the system to comply with DOH requirements. As the client did not want to have chlorine gas on site a sodium hypochlorite disinfection system was selected.